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Genuinely interesting piece of software, because contrary to scores of programs claiming to do the same thing, it goes much beyond raw SMART data analysis. Without extensive tests including failing or failed disks, it's of course impossible to tell whether this product lives up to its claims.
However, the publisher does explain why, according to him, the SMART system by itself does not protect accurately against drive failure, and what Hard Disk Sentinel does on top of that. (Essentially, analyzing SMART data history, and computing it in a way that differs from the SMART standard.) Check this page :
The offered Standard edition does not allow for portable installation (you need the Professional edition for that). Apart from that, most of the functions you don't get are dispensable extras (except maybe from "Complete surface analysis, refresh, reinitialise", and remote control if you happen to be in a network situation).
Editions comparison is here :
Amazingly, Hard Disk Sentinel also claims to monitor SSDs and SD cards.
Unfortunately, this is one more software which is not high DPI-aware. On my system, I get unpleasant rendering of fonts, either jagged or too thin. Most of the user interface text seems visible, though.
This irritating defect is all-too common on sofwtare written by individual developers working essentially as amateurs. It's unacceptable for publishers such as Hard Disk Sentinel who claim to address corporations as well as home users.muhammad kamalGuest
thank you very much and we wait more and moreMarcGuest
Many THANKS for this softGerald WolfeGuest
[ @Ashraf] The program did not self register. Only have the unregistered version on this computer!nstollGuest
I downloaded the program only to discover that it does not auto-register. I need the key/license. Please help.nstollGuest
I downloaded the program only to discover that it does not auto-register. I need the key/license. Please help.
I have an older version on my computer and the newer version auto-registered after I made sure the older version was closed before I installed the newer version.MikeGuest
Have downloaded precedent version 4.40 Pro. Whats's better this one 4.71 Staandard or the 4.40 <<pro ?
Thanks for any answersonycGuest
Works great…thank you!.mau.Guest
I already have version 4.71 installed on my PC. Is this version newer? On their site I found that current version is 4.71.10, but I cannot find anywhere the complete version name.JohnLGuestBruno MagalhãesGuest
This software is amazing, i really do not know how i never heard of it, it simply smashes the opponents (aka ashampoo).
Many thanks! You save me 1.5tb of data!
I'm planning to buy the professional version later this year.Bruno MagalhãesGuest
Forgot to mention: PLEASE MAKE IT DPI AWARE. It looks blurry on DPI above 100%, and it looks tiny on my 4k display. Apart from that, it is perfect.John CarberyGuest
Great software , have it on all our computers .
Thanks Ashraf , keep up the good work .


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His latest film credit is in the recently released "Cockneys Vs. Zombies." He said he had no desire to retire, but complained in one of his final interviews that the chronic lung disease emphysema was slowing him down.
"The ciggies got me. I stopped 10 years ago, but too late," he told the Daily Mail newspaper last month.
"It's totally my fault. So, I get very breathless, which is a pain in the backside."
In 1989, Briers was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.
Among his peers and fans, Briers was much appreciated for his humor and self-deprecating wit. He said of one run in the title role of "Hamlet": "I may not have been the best Hamlet of my generation but I was certainly the fastest."
"On the opening night I took 24 minutes off the running time, and I think it must have been the only 'Hamlet' in recent times where people were able to get out to the pub afterwards for a drink," he said.
Briers married the actress Anne Davies in 1956. They had two daughters.


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09/24/2018 - 12/07/2018 Mon, Wed 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 200-217 with Richardson, J. (PI)
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FEMGEN 144F: Female Modernists: Women Writers in Paris Between the Wars
The course will focus on expatriate women writers - American and British - who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Among them: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Margaret Anderson, Janet Flanner, Natalie Barney, Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, Romaine Brooks, Mary Butts, Radclyffe Hall, Colette, and Jean Rhys. A central theme will be Paris as a lure and inspiration for bohemian female modernists, and the various alternative and emancipatory literary communities they created.
Last offered: Winter 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
FEMGEN 145: Culture Wars: Art and Social Conflict in the USA, 1890-1950 (AMSTUD 145M, ARTHIST 145, ARTHIST 345)
This course examines social conflicts and political controversies in American culture through the lens of visual art and photography. We consider how visual images both reflect and participate in the social and political life of the nation and how the terms of citizenship have been represented¿and, at times, contested¿by artists throughout the first half of the 20th century. The class explores the relation between American art and the body politic by focusing on issues of poverty, war, censorship, consumerism, class identity, and racial division.
Last offered: Spring 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
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Ok... here's the deal. I thought I had everything hooked up right, but I wasn't able to record anything from my TV.
Here's my setup:
TV (A/V hookups and a coax in)
DVD/VCR Combo (A/V in and out, coax in and out)
Reciever with all kinds of I/O
Previously, I just had the coax coming into the tv so we could watch cable on the TV. So I went and hooked the coax into the in of the VCR/DVD player and ran the coax out into the coax in of the TV. Everything still works, and we have all 70 some channels on the TV.
HOWEVER, when I use the VCR/DVD player to flip through the channels, it only displays the first 12 or so on the TV. These are all broadcast channels (CBS, ABC, etc.) It will not display the other channels, and hence I cannot record the other channels.
So my question is, is there any way to make my existing hardware record the other channels, or do I need some sort of descrambler to get the other channels through my DVD/VCR player?
I also had it hooked up so that the cable signal was going through the TV and then into the DVD/VCR, but that only gives me the first couple channels also.
So this all leads me to believe that the DVD/VCR player cannot descramble the other cable channels like my TV can.


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There's a journal sitting on the table next to my bed. There's also one sitting on the table next to the rocking chair in Edison's room. I have one to write my thoughts and feelings through my pregnancy and the other to journal through the first few months and years of Edison's life.
Would you be surprised if I told you they were both empty?
Maybe someday I'll regret not writing more during my pregnancy and this time as a new mom, but right now all the inspiring thoughts I can get out of my pen go in Edison's baby book . . . and most of the rest of my thoughts, before he was born, weren't that inspiring.
For some reason I just can't write about how awful I felt trying to sleep every night in my bed with my every craving available in my refrigerator downstairs, or at the very least, at the neighborhood grocery store. I seriously don't even want to try to remember the number of nights I tried to sleep in a sitting-up position in a soft comfy chair because my nose was so stuffed up I couldn't breathe — and I didn't even have a cold. As much as I want to complain, and probably did at the time, I know I really had it easy.
And the stuff I want to remember . . . like how cool it was to feel him kicking around inside me and how it is just a little freaky and amazing that God can even do such a miracle in me . . . would be really hard to "get" from words on a page. Right now, I remember these things every time I look at my son's face and see that he is growing right before my eyes.
So, who am I to regret not doing something so indulgent as writing all this stuff down when most of the new mothers around the world can't even read, let alone write their own name? Many of these women wouldn't even believe that their words counted or their thoughts mattered. And I wonder, is it possible to raise a child with self esteem if you don't have it yourself?
And really, how am I so different from them anyway? Don't all mothers everywhere want the same things for their children? I still remember the first time Edison smiled at me on purpose. Now I even get to hear him laugh. Can you imagine not hearing your child laugh?
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Sustainable Beauty Design In Waverle 6
Welcome back, dears! Having a luxurious home does not always refer to someone who is rich. But we can design a luxurious home by our own idea. For example is this home. This is designed in luxury decoration. If you are interested in this home, let's talk about it.
Based on the picture, this home is built in two level design. It is beautified with large green yard. So that, you will see the green surrounding in it. When you wanna enter this home, you will pass the wooden way. It is completed with white neon lights. This lights make your way bright and create luxurious impression in your yard.
Then this home also completed with pool in yard. This pool is in infinity design. The attractive one from this pool is the small waterfall. Near it, you will find small terrace. This terrace is provided with seating chairs and table, so that, you can enjoy your surrounding in there.
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Executive Women International (EWI) ASIST Scholarship
The Adult Students in Scholastic Transition Scholarship is an education program for the benefit of nontraditional students. Interested applicants who are 18 year of age or older and reside within the boundaries of an EWI chapter may obtain an application packet through the EWI website: http://www.springsewi.com/scholarship/asist-scholarship-information (Colorado Springs). To find information and local chapters in other areas, go to www.ewiconnect.com. Deadline for applications is June 1, 2014.
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Here's some more Thursday link-up lovins coming your way! I'm linking up with DJ at Medicine: A Love Story to share more med-love antics. Click on the icon above to visit her blog and to view this week's link up posts.
Today's topic: Which fictional doctor is your significant other most like?
If you aren't in a relationship with a medical significant other (let's hereafter refer to them as med sig-O's, shall we?), allow me to let you in on a little secret: all these medical shows they've got on tv nowadays, while admittedly pumping up the drama and sex a bit for ratings, can actually come pretty close to portraying the different doc personalities you might come across at your local hospital.
Say whaaaat?! They've got McDreamys up in that biz?
Yes. And McSteamys, people. Just check out the hottttay I married.
(The one exception I'll make to this is that we've yet to come across a Doogie Howser, although sometimes attendings treat med students like 14 year olds.)
That being the case, when I started to think about today's topic, it wasn't too tough to pinpoint things in on-screen docs' personalities that reminded me of D. The trouble was, there wasn't any one fictional doc who fit the bill completely. So I did what any reasonable person faced with such a conundrum would do: I made a love-child.
But Neil Patrick Harris will totally play him once we sell our story to FX (it has be a network that can air the word "sh*t").


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Centenarian was Born on Christmas Day
Tifton Gazette
Feb. 28, 1913
Berrien county boasts of a lady resident 102 years old, Mrs. Delilah Drawdy, says the Sparks Eagle. She has over three hundred grand-children and moved to Georgia from North Carolina. She can thread a needle without glasses; has a good number of quilts she made herself; is able to do house work; goes whereever she wishes; enjoys her meals, and can talk very interestingly of the changes in the modes of travel during her century and more of life.
Ridin' in a REO–In what is believed to be the first car in Berrien County, Dr. P.H. Askew and Mrs. Delilah Drawdy ride in style in a REO two-seater. Dr. Askew wanted Mrs. Drawdy to be his first passenger in his new car, and when asked if she was afraid to go for a ride in the REO, she replied, "Why should I be? I'll have a doctor driving?"
The photo was taken about 1904, the first year the REO Motor Car Company produced automobiles.
Dr. Pleasant H. Askew was a prominent physician, businessman and landowner of Nashville, GA. In the 1920s he purchased a farm from Sullivan J. Knight along Cat Creek about five miles north of Ray City, GA; it was one of several Berrien County properties he owned.
Delilah Drawdy died in March, 1914
Tifton Gazette
March 27, 1914
Died at Age of 102.
Adel, March 17. Mrs. Delilah Drawdy, who died at the age of 102 at Rays Mill Sunday, removed one of the most remarkable women in the state. She married Noah Green when she was 15, and to them was born 10 children, five of whom are still living. The oldest child is eighty-four years of age, and the youngest is sixty-four. Mrs. Drawdy was twice married, her second husband being Levy Drawdy, with whom she lived twenty-five years. Two sons were born to them, one of which survives her. Her grand children, great grand children and great great grandchildren number over 400.
Mrs. Drawdy was a grand mother of sheriff J. M. Shaw's first wife. She retained her faculties well, despite her age and remembered when the "stars fell."
Other remembrances included:
Mrs. Drawdy, probably the oldest woman in the State of Georgia died at her home in Rays Mill Sunday. She was 102 years old, and was the grandmother of J. H. May and Mrs. J. M. Shaw of Adel…. She was able to sit up and sew until a few weeks before her death , and at the age of 101, she made a quilt for her grandson, J. H. May. Her eyesight and hearing were good and she maintained her metal faculties until the last. She joined the Primitive Baptist Church in 1852. Burial took place at Milltown Monday. She was born in North Carolina and moved to Georgia when she was 15 years old. Surviving children, William Green of Stockton, Mrs. Baten of Sparks, Mrs. D. M. Drawdy of Rays Mill, H. H. Green of Rays Mill, Mrs. H. Cox of Dupont and S. M. Drawdy of Hahira.
Affectionately known as "Dillie, her maiden name was Delilah Ann Hinson. She was born on Christmas Day, 1812 in Anson County, North Carolina a daughter of Frances Steward and Charles "King" Hinson. As a young woman she came with her father to Pulaski County, GA. About 1827 she married Noah Green, also of North Carolina. Census records for Noah Green show he and Dillie made their household in Captain Lenam's District, Pulaski County, GA.
Children of Delilah A. Hinson and Noah Green:
- William Hiram Green (1834-1916)
- Elizabeth Green (1834-1886)
- James Green (1836-)
- Frankie Angeline Green (1840-1922)
- Charles R Green (1842-)
- John B Green (1843-)
- Susannah Green(1846-)
- Houston H Green (1849-1925)
- Sarah Ann Green(1853-1945)
Family tradition says about 1854-55 Noah Green relocated his household to that part of Lowndes county which was soon to be cut into the new county of Berrien. But almost at the moment of arrival at the new homestead, Noah Green suffered a heart attack and died, leaving the widowed Dillie to raise a family on her own.
Within a year or two Delilah Hinson Green married again. Her second husband was the widower Levi Drawdy, a prosperous farmer in Berrien County. He was a son of John Drawdy, born October 15, 1803, in the Barnwell District of South Carolina. His uncle Daniel Drawdy was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. Drawdy's first wife, Rebecca Carter, was a daughter of Elijah Carter, Sr., who lived on Little Saltketcher Creek on the Barnwell-Colleton line in South Carolina. Levi and Rebecca Drawdy made their home in Barnwell county until 1834 when they moved to settle on land on the west side of the Alapaha River in present day Lanier County, GA. Many of the Carter family connection had already come from South Carolina to settle in the same area. On June 7, 1834 Drawdy and his wife Rebecca were baptized into the membership of Union Church. He served as a private in 1838 in the Indian War, in Capt. Jesse Carter's Company of Lowndes County militia. In 1853, Rebecca Carter Drawdy died and was buried at Union Church near their home. She was survived by her husband and ten children.
About 1854, the widower Levi Drawdy and the widow Delilah Ann Hinson Green were married. The couple made a blended household out of their large families. At the time of marriage they had 18 children between the two of them. Their union produced two more.
Children of Delilah Hinson and Levi Drawdy:
- Sylvester M. Drawy
- Perry Drawdy
Mr. Drawdy was buried at Union Church. He left a will dated July 25, 1864, which was probated August 25, 1881, in Lowndes Court of Ordinary. His son, Daniel, was designated as executor. His home place and farm, Lot of Land No. 389 in 11th district of Lowndes, was divided among the wife and surviving children: Daniel Drawdy, Levi Drawdy, Jr., Sylvester M. Drawdy, Mrs. Christina Drawdy Wetherington, Mrs. Elizabeth Green Touchston, Mrs. Kiziah Drawdy Rhoden, Mrs. Sarah Drawdy Chitty, and Fairiby Drawdy.
Delilah Ann Hinson Green Drawdy died in 1914. She is buried along with other members of the Green and Drawdy families in the cemetery at Union Church.


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GI endoscopy demonstrated in open access video journal
The Editor-in-Chief writes about lessons learned and next steps – including the possibility of other fields using this format
By Jürgen Pohl, MD, PhD Posted on 16 April 2014
The communication of science is becoming more visual. As a result, science is not only more entertaining but more impactful when it comes to demonstrating and learning new procedures. So the question for practitioners is: Why read a long and detailed article about a procedure on paper if you can watch a moderated video in a fraction of the time?
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Dr. Jürgen Pohl is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy (VJGIEN). He is Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Interventional Gastroscopy at Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain in Berlin and holds a professorship at the Heidelberg University Hospital.
Gastrointestinal endoscopy (GI) – the field I work in – is becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. We realized that we needed a new tool to demonstrate procedures in endoscopy, so we developed the Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy (VJGIEN), launched last June. (As the first video journal in its field, it was featured in this Elsevier Connect article.) The format changed the traditional relationship between words and video; our focus is on providing hands-on video demonstrations with text modules that assist with additional background.
Now, it is time to draw some conclusions and discuss whether the format can also serve as a model for other disciplines where visual learning is beneficial, such as in cardiology.
What is VJGIEN?
VJGIEN is an online, open access video journal on ScienceDirect that illustrates clinical evidence, new techniques and clinical procedures in the field of endoscopy with a focus on video rather than text. Watching the videos assists clinicians in their diagnosis and helps them learn new procedures to apply in their work. The videos can serve as useful tools for endoscopy units and help them establish new procedures and therapies. Acting almost as a live simulation, the videos are largely uncut and give the viewers guidance by way of real-time demonstrations. Additional concise manuscripts accompanying each video detail the procedures and the findings in bullet points.
Why videos?
The video journal was created in response to an increasing demand for tools that promote reproducibility of procedures and consequent implementation of new techniques. The written word is insufficient in this regard. Although the videos are still framed with words and accompanied by audio comments, the best learning effect results from watching a procedure being actually conducted. The videos provide a guided approach while offering a look over the shoulder of a clinician who explains what they are doing step by step. Traditional formats that use the written word as the main communication channel can never create this kind of experience.
Response from the research community
Since June, we have received over 47,000 views; the usage has significantly increased since completing the full upload of the 250 encyclopedic videos in October. The journal videos are open access and can be viewed by anyone on video-endoscopy.com as well as on ScienceDirect and our YouTube channel.
The first video contributions were submitted by invitation. Now, our challenge is to motivate authors to send in their videos. We aim for high-quality video submissions from trendsetters in the field. A great incentive for authors is the broad visibility of their work by publishing open access.
Meanwhile, we are waiting to see whether our applications for PubMedCentral and a Thomson Reuters listing get accepted.
Watch a video on the journal's YouTube channel
Lessons learned
After watching all the demonstrations handed in so far, I have realized just how much we can learn from each other. The same problem is often addressed in different ways. This does not mean that one way is right and the other is wrong. (Almost) all ways lead to Rome. Watching other people's work encourages the viewer to question and sometimes adapt their own procedures.
Naturally this format can also be adopted by other disciplines. Elsevier has always considered VJGIEN a pilot project that could also be used in other areas, such as cardiology, where video demonstrations naturally make sense. Another Elsevier journal, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, has already started to replicate our model. The journal now offers video content with a very similar format to that of VJGIEN as a sub-offer to the traditional journal. The difference with our journal is that we catalog our entries so that videos of procedures are searchable in an encyclopedia.
The future of VJGIEN and scientific knowledge sharing
Now that we have properly launched VJGIEN, we can work on the future development of the journal. One idea is to enable direct communication in communities through the platform the VJGIEN website provides. My aim is that the journal will eventually be used for live endoscopy trainings. There are a couple of symposiums around the world that show these live demonstrations, and we would like to connect with them to strengthen the live character of our product.
I believe that the future of scientific communication for clinicians lies in mobile access. Thus, they can update themselves on the latest techniques on the go – whether they are preparing for an examination at home or even during surgery. Our journal follows this trend by being available on tablets and smartphones. Demonstration will become more accepted and sought after by the research and scientific community focused on clinical solutions. The well-researched scientific article will never be entirely replaced by film. However the practical dimension of our field is asking for formats such as video for their capacity to improve reproducibility through one-to-one demonstrations.
In addition, a certain level of entertainment is much appreciated among the new generation of scientists and clinicians working with multimedia resources. Modern tools that simplify the production and cutting of film as well as possibilities to attach video equipment to medical appliances support this evolving trend.
Partnering with a publisher
A large project such as VJGIEN can only be successfully realized through partnering with a large publisher supported by robust structures. Elsevier enables us to choose top-quality technology to produce high resolution videos and easily transfer them onto ScienceDirect, YouTube and our website. The quality of the footage is particularly important; we are used to employing highly sophisticated technology when conducting a clinical procedure and have little tolerance for a loss in quality when watching procedures on film. The clinician has to be sure that what they are seeing really is what they think they are seeing. A poor-quality video would not only be unattractive but potentially dangerous or just useless.
When launching an innovative new journal, of course all parties involved have to be patient with each other – we have certainly gone through a trial-and-error phase together, including all the hiccups you usually experience when developing something brand new. However, it was certainly worth it, and we are looking forward to taking VJGIEN to the next level.


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Knockout places the prize on matchday five
Thursday 15 November 2012
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With six of the round of 32 berths already filled, an intriguing matchday five could see a host of clubs secure their own places in the UEFA Europa League knockout stage.
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Football does not usually require much mathematics, but with some UEFA Europa League groups too close to call and permutations aplenty, there is likely to be some frantic number-crunching next Thursday before a clearer picture of the round of 32 emerges.
All four Group A teams remain in contention, though victories for FC Anji Makhachkala at home to Udinese Calcio, and Liverpool FC against BSC Young Boys at Anfield, will take them through. Group B is more clear-cut with holders Club Atlético de Madrid and FC Viktoria Plzeň needing to avoid defeat to progress, though the latter face A. Académica de Coimbra, who after ending Atlético's record 16-game winning streak, still cling to ambitions of prolonging their European adventure.
Fenerbahçe SK's tally of ten points in Group C is bettered by only one side in the competition, and a draw at Olympique de Marseille would confirm their ticket to the round of 32. However, victories for OM and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach at home to eliminated AEL Limassol FC would leave a trio of clubs with all-or-nothing ties on matchday six. Having won their last eight home matches in UEFA competition, Newcastle United FC will be confident of beating CS Marítimo to advance from Group D; success for Girondins de Bordeaux at Club Brugge KV will send them through too.
FC Steaua Bucureşti are all but assured of their spot in the next round, and could proceed even if they lose at home to VfB Stuttgart, for whom victory would be synonymous with qualification should FC København fail to overcome hosts Molde FK in the other Group E fixture. The waters are somewhat muddier in Group F, though, where former European champions PSV Eindhoven must defeat section leaders FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on home soil and hope SSC Napoli do not win at AIK to keep their aspirations alive.
All four teams can still qualify from Group G, though KRC Genk hold the whip hand – victory for them in Hungary against Videoton FC will carry them through. Paulo Sousa's men must win and pray that FC Basel 1893 do not beat Sporting Clube de Portugal if they are to progress early – one place will still be up for grabs on matchday six regardless. Last season's runners-up Athletic Club are in jeopardy with their Group I destiny no longer in their power. A draw between AC Sparta Praha and Olympique Lyonnais, the only club with a 100% record coming into matchday five, will eliminate the Spanish side and their hosts Hapoel Kiryat Shmona FC.
S.S. Lazio will clinch pole position in Group J with victory at home to Tottenham Hotspur FC, though a triumph for the English outfit in the Italian capital would take them through if NK Maribor do not prevail at Panathinaikos FC. Levante UD will advance from Group L should they win at Helsingborgs IF – anything less and they could still be caught by FC Twente, who require maximum plunder from Hannover 96 to sustain the suspense until matchday six.


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Jennings blast enough for Bulls
On a hot Monday night in Durham, the Bisons could only muster one run on nine hits in a 2-1 loss to the Bulls.
Jason Botts represented the tying run with a pinch-hit, two-out single in the ninth, but reliever Jake McGee saved the game with a ground out hit by Mike Nickeas.
The Bisons managed three first-inning hits against Durham starter Chris Bootcheck, but couldn't score. With Luis Figueroa on third, Bootcheck caught Michael Fisher in a rundown at first, but first baseman Dan Johnson made a throw home just in time to catch a sneaking Figueroa.
After a single by Valentino Pascucci put Fisher on third, Bootcheck rebounded to retire the next 10 batters he faced until a fifth-inning leadoff single by Nick Evans.
Fisher's first-inning single extended his hitting streak to 14 games, the best active streak in the International League. Nick Evans also extended a streak to 10 games with a 2-for-4 night.
Bootcheck allowed one earned run on seven hits with five strikeouts without a walk.
Durham's Desmond Jennings powered a Dylan Owen pitch over the right field wall for a two-run home run in the bottom of the third, the game's first score. Over six innings, Owen allowed six hits with the two runs off the home run, striking out five to two walks.
Zach Lutz hit a long ball of his own, cutting the lead in half with a solo home run to left field in the sixth inning against Bootcheck.
Game Notes: Monday's game marked the first between the Herd and the Bulls. The Bulls won the 2010 series 5-3… Dale Thayer, a former Bull, pitched scoreless seventh and eighth innings in relief of Owen… Jesus Feliciano stretched his hit streak to eight games with a single in the seventh inning… The game started with a temperature of 85 degrees.


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So you were wondering which cities have the highest average snowfall totals and how many snowplows they possess per square mile? You weren't? Oh well, here we go anyway. The point is that some of the snowiest places have far less equipment than some of their warmer weather counterparts.
Average snowfall total:
- Buffalo, 93.6 inches (1.66 snowplows per square mile)
- Duluth, Minnesota, 80.7 inches (0.64)
- Cleveland, 56.9 inches (1.92)
- Calgary, 53.3 inches (0.44)
- Toronto, 52.4 inches (2.35)
Further down the list are some big cities with less snow and more plows. It's quite possible these major metro mayors realize their political futures could depend on how well those streets get cleaned. And the Buffaloes of the world certainly understand how to deal with the annual winter blasts they receive.
- Chicago, 38.5 inches (2.22 snowplows per square mile)
- New York, 28.4 inches (7.37)
- Philadelphia, 20.5 inches (2.59)
- Washington, D.C., 16.6 inches (3.60)


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Brokers should only be required to disclose their recruitment compensation packages to clients when there is a potential conflict of interest, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association told FINRA Tuesday.
Securities lawyer Patrick Burns (right) told AdvisorOne Wednesday that with SIFMA's support, FINRA's "proposal's chances of becoming a new rule seem to be a done deal."
Responding to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's request for comment on its controversial proposal under Regulatory Notice 13-02 to require that brokers' recruitment compensation be disclosed when they switch firms, SIFMA told FINRA in its March 5 comment letter that "enhanced compensation paid to a registered representative as a recruitment incentive, when a conflict of interest, should be the centerpiece of the proposed rule."
FINRA's proposed rule states that "customers would benefit from being told the material conflicts arising from a registered person being paid recruiting incentives to change firms."
SIFMA says it believes that, at key moments in the investment process, "investors need clear, targeted and understandable disclosure on key factors" to make properly informed investment decisions. SIFMA says it "supports disclosure of information that is sufficient to inform an investor of the potential conflicts of interest when it may arise in connection with recruiting-related bonus payments."
Ira Hammerman, SIFMA's senior managing director and general counsel, added in the comment letter that "A tenet of a uniform fiduciary standard of care for both registered representatives and registered investment advisors is necessary and adequate disclosure. Investors should know up front about any potential conflicts of interest, and those disclosures should be in clear, plain English."
The letter said SIFMA opposed requiring brokers to disclose recruitment packages while still associated with their prior firm, calling such a meaure "unworkable."
Out of all the comment letters regarding the proposed rule—which didn't include any from the wirehouses—Burns told AdvisorOne that SIFMA's "carries the most weight," and that with SIFMA's support, "a rule in this area seems to be a foregone conclusion."
"The only thing to be worked out is the details of the rule," he said.
Burns added that the absence of any comments from the wirehouses was "puzzling, unless you take the view they wanted this rule passed to save money on the massive costs they incur with recruitment deals."
Burns also noted a recent interview in which Richard Ketchum, FINRA's CEO, said that after the comment period closed—which happened Tuesday—he expected FINRA would promptly request Securities and Exchange Commission approval of the plan.
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Travelers drive themselves through the most uninhabited stretches of Southern Chile and Argentina on Quasar Expeditions' new Wild Patagonia program in partnership with Jeep Wrangler. The tour combines bucket-list landmarks and luxuriously appointed wilderness lodges and spas with the spontaneity of a self-drive adventure.
Each of the 4x4 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicons comes equipped with an easy-to-use Garmin Navigational System set up with a smart GPS Ranger that clicks on when you approach landmarks to provide historical and scientific information. Just how much travelers want to rely on the new GPS system is up to them. They can choose one of three options offered at different price points: a completely self-driven option with no guide (the lowest priced), a self-drive option with a guide in the car or a Quasar-guide driven ride (the highest priced). Tours range from $5,950 to $10,450.
Opting for the guide-less, self-drive gives the trip some worthwhile edge, but clients won't be completely roughing it. Quasar stays in touch via walkie-talkie to help answer any questions, and they monitor the jeep's progress via GPS to ensure visitors make it to their hotels. They also require a guide at the more complicated stops including the 12-mile roundtrip hike up to the base of Torres del Paine. Though optional, the hike is a must-do for any active traveler in Patagonia. There is an additional $360 charge for up to four guests (the maximum permitted in each vehicle) for this service.
Getting physically lost is not much of an issue since there are not too many roads in these parts and most are paved. But, sometimes, it's good to feel a little lost in the moment, such as when we careened through a herd of nandu birds (small Patagonian ostriches) that had taken over part of a long stretch of asphalt on the way to Torres del Paine National Park. No one was around but us.
Another favorite moment was on the Argentine road leading to Chile, where we were entranced by the road's puddles reflecting the sun setting behind the Andes. It was so intoxicating that we decided to pull over to snap pictures, which is something any good tour guide should allow, but then we sat there for a few moments, on our own accord, to let the scenery soak in. In control of our time, we got more than a Facebook picture.
Clients control where and for how long the car stops, though Quasar provides two basic itineraries that cater to either naturalists or active adventurers. Travel agents can also work with Quasar to tailor itineraries to accommodate the personal preferences of the group.
Some of the highlights of the Wild Patagonia itinerary include horseback riding beneath the face of Fitz Roy peak (note that you do not actually visit Fitz Roy); hiking through the pristine beauty of the French Valley in Torres del Paine National Park; summiting the base of the Torres del Paine; exploring a cave once inhabited by the extinct Milodon; hiking on top of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Glacier National Park; and ambling along the cafe- and boutique- dotted streets of El Calafate, Argentina.
Hotels have all been meticulously vetted by Quasar and are among the most notable manmade structures in the area. For instance, The Singular Patagonia Puerto Bories Hotel was once a wool factory at the center of industry in Southern Chile and is now a museum/hotel. Its kitchen is one of the best in the area and is a great place to sample the local delicacy of guanaco.
Patagonia Camp offers nature in the most relaxing way possible: luxury yurts finished with glass ceilings, set before a gorgeous Alpine lake. Tierra Patagonia Hotel & Spa is an architectural feat and features an interior crafted almost entirely out of beech wood. Views from inside the rooms make getting up the best kind of difficult. In short, Quasar Expeditions' properties are customer service-oriented lodges that treat travelers who are weary from a full day of exploration.
Somewhere during our drive through Torres del Paine National Park, condors circled above, snow-capped mountains glistened and impossibly aquamarine lagoons rippled in the wind. Sometimes we listened to our iPod; a lot of the time we marveled out loud at the beauty. But mostly, the road trip was quiet. The windows were down and we could hear the timeless call of the Andes, beckoning like it has to adventurers, explorers and wanderers through the ages. And while we may have been in the moment, we never felt astray.


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This drill was filmed at the seminar in Idar-Oberstein, Germany in November 2012. The drill is intended to act as an aid to memory and as time efficient form of practise for some of the applications associated with Kushanku / Kanku-Dai. This short clip can't convey how the drill is intended to sit in the totality of practise; nor can it capture all that was covered in the ten hours of practise at this seminar. Viewers need to appreciate that this short clip is not intended to be a substitute for in-depth instruction. It is nevertheless hoped that the clip is of interest.
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Day 4 – Monday, May 24
I went a total of 2.51 miles today. I burned a sum of 158 calories. I took a whole total of 5302 steps.
Day 5 – Tuesday, May 25
I had to go to a love ones funeral today. It was a very sad day. But she lived a long life. She was one of the nicest ladies you could ever meet. She always went to church and she helped spread the love. That is what church is all about. I know her family misses her very much. But she is in a place with no pain now. She is sitting up there with Jesus and dancing away. I got to see some of my family and her friends. It's kind of sad you only see this many people when someone dies. We should always be this close, when we are alive. I know many people are busy making a living, but take some time to spend it well with people you love. Think of how many people we could reach out to, if we just would do it. I remember how she used to get me off the bus sometimes. I also remember hanging out with my cousins at her house many times. This song was a song I thought fit her life. She had a lot of love to go around. I wanted to put this song on a family slideshow we did for my whole family at Christmastime. But we found other ones to include on it instead. But my point is I had the honor and privilege to be a part of my family's history. She sat near my dad at my family Christmas dinner. He had to tell her who most of the people were. But she knew some. Her memory has been going for a while. But I know now in Heaven she remembers everything. She knows her family. The song is called, "Some Things Never Change" by Sara Evans. I want to thank the pastors and the church members who helped provide food for her huge family and friends. They had two rows of maybe 6 tables. They had to add another row. We had that many people. I didn't count the tables I am estimating. But anyone who came saw a lot of people. Thank you. Thank you to the pastors who said nice things about her. Thank you to the people who sung at the funeral. Thank you for your prayers and your condolences.
Here is "Some Things Never Change":
Another song that popped in my mind during these crazy times was a song by Mandisa. The song is called, "You Wouldn't Cry (Andrew's Song)". The song is a about someone who is already in Heaven. He or she is telling that it is going to be okay. Jesus has them and you. Sometimes we get stuck in wanting to know why. I can't answer that question. All I know is if I died I am going to Heaven. I know it's hard when you lose someone you love. But we have to have hope that one day we will see them again someday. I know it hurts when someone leaves us on this earth. But if they knew Jesus and you do then you will see them again.
Listen to Mandisa's "You Wouldn't Cry (Andrew's Song)":
Some of the lyrics are listed below:
"All you saw was pain All you saw was rain But you should see me now Moments filled with tears Lasted all those years disappeared somehow You never said goodbye On your knees you cry You're still asking why, but Blue has never been bluer True has never been truer Honey never tasted so sweet There's a song in the breeze A million voices in praise A rose has never smelled redder The sun has never been brighter If I could find the right words to say If you could look at my face If you could just see this place You wouldn't cry for me today."
If you like to see Andrew's Story, check out the link below: Mandisa shares the message behind the song.
Day 6 – Wednesday, May 26
I went a grand total of 3.00 miles today. I smoked a total of 206 calories. 6347 steps were taken by me today.
Day 7 – Thursday, May 27
All I have today is a song to share.
Here is some of the lyrics of "You're Gonna Be" By Reba McEntire.
You're gonna fly with every dream you chase You're gonna cry, but know that that's okay Sometimes life's not fair, but if you hang in there You're gonna see that sometimes bad is good We just have to believe things work out like they should Life has no guarantees, but always loved by me You're gonna be
Here is the video for "You're Gonna Be":
"'Cause anything worth doing is worth doing all the way Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make So make sure you're always givin' way more than you're takin'"
So let's listen to these lyrics! That is the truth.
You can be whoever you choose to be. You can choose to love or choose to hate. It's all a decision.
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At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th–century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated – and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit.
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As she researches Mary's life – she has begun writing a play about her – Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family – and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood.
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Once ubiquitous, the parish priest is disappearing into thin air, with troubling effects on young Catholic imaginations.
A few years ago while teaching, I realized that my students, mostly Catholic high school graduates, considered bishops to be distant administrators and not teachers. This attitude initially puzzled me, but I soon realized that, because of the decline in priestly vocations, most had been taught solely by laypeople and did not view clerics as teachers.
This got me thinking about the consequences of the priestly vocation decline and then its causes, and this rumination brought me to a surprising conclusion: Whatever the initial causes, the current cause of the priestly vocation decline is the vocation decline.
Catholic boys now grow up without much contact with priests. They know few if any priests personally. Furthermore, they see few priestly role models, and often those are overworked middle-aged or elderly men caring for parishes by themselves. Years ago priests headed schools, hospitals, social service organizations, and charities. Now young Catholics see laypeople occupying many of these offices.
The absence of priests extends beyond formal duties. At my boyhood parochial school, priests would often stop by the classes to chat with students, and they would put in appearances at school plays, concerts, and sporting events. Priests were familiar persons to young Catholics in a way unimaginable in most parishes today.
Today there are priests who must care for more than one parish, with the result that pastoral teams handle much of the day-to-day matters once done by priests. In some parts of the United States, parishes have no resident priest, not even part time. In a contemporary version of the 19th-century circuit rider, an overscheduled priest will visit a parish to celebrate Mass and handle whatever cannot be handled by anyone else there, and then drive off to yet another parish. In such cases, a parish administrator deals with most managerial matters. Often the parish administrator is a woman religious, which means that congregations now see a woman performing duties previously reserved for priests.
The diminished contact of laypeople with priests is exacerbated by low Mass attendance compared to the 1950s and also by the decline of confession. When I tell my students that I go to confession and recommend it to them, many tell me that they have not been since making their confirmation. Mass and confession may be formal contacts, but at least they bring young people into contact with priests.
What can be said of parishes can be said for Catholic education. A student can now go through Catholic education from kindergarten through college and be taught only by laypeople. Many Catholic colleges founded by religious orders now have lay presidents to go along with the lay vice presidents, deans, and faculty. Some orders have such little influence in the schools which they founded that the colleges advertise themselves as being in the such-and-such "tradition," a decorous way of acknowledging the new reality.
While not encountering priests is passive, there may be another factor at work. The priesthood requires serious sacrifices on the part of a young man. Besides celibacy, priests must forgo career flexibility, that is, they cannot change jobs the way a computer programmer might move from Microsoft to Apple. Diocesan priests will literally spend their lives in the same local area and give obedience to the local ordinary, while priests in religious orders must have their decisions ratified by religious superiors.
In the past young men have understood the necessity of making such personal sacrifices in order to become priests, but one must wonder if today some young men may hesitate to make such sacrifices since the church appears to function quite well without many priests.
Another factor now weakening vocations is, ironically, a positive one. In the 1960s the Second Vatican Council called for a vigorous lay apostolate, recognizing an increasingly educated laity who wanted to play a more active part in Catholic life. Many laypeople responded, and their numbers have grown over the years, but the persistent vocation decline caused laypeople to occupy many offices previously reserved to priests, something not anticipated by the council. For example, let me use what I know best-Jesuit education, with which I have been associated as student and teacher for more than four decades.
My story is an increasingly familiar one. When I started at John Carroll University in 1972, I was the only layperson in the department of religious studies. Slowly but surely, via death and retirement, the number of priests-Jesuits and others-declined. In 1985 a dean "reluctantly" (his memo actually used that word!) appointed me to be the first lay chairperson in the department's history. Now we have only one full-time Jesuit in the department, despite our relentless efforts to find others.
Although hired for their abilities as teachers and scholars, professors of theology at Catholic institutions automatically if inadvertently become role models. At my undergraduate institution, Boston College, all of my theology teachers were Jesuits who modeled and imaged a priestly Catholicism. Now lay professors model and image a lay Catholicism, and we do so simply by being who we are. With few priests on campuses, students routinely learn how to be believing, practicing, professional Catholic laypersons.
It is an educational truism that we teach more by who we are than by what we say, and students often relate to who the lay teachers are. Laypeople have experience of marriage, parenthood, job searching, and, for half of us, being women. Yet, by showing how one can serve the church in the lay state, we lay teachers may be inadvertently weakening the attractiveness of the priesthood for our students. And thus the old saying, "No good deed goes unpunished."
I have two concerns about diminishing numbers of priests on campuses. First, I have always worked with Jesuits, including some of the great names of American Catholic scholarship, and it pains me to think that my students will rarely or never come in contact with such men. Although my students will not know it, this will be a serious loss to their education.
Second, Jesuit institutions were founded by priests who saw higher education as living out part of their order's charism. I hear repeatedly how laypeople can continue the Jesuit educational tradition, but the fact is that we do not live the Ignatian charism in our personal lives, and to be a truly Jesuit institution, the colleges and universities need those who do. I suspect the same is true for institutions founded by other orders.
I also suspect that what applies to higher education also applies to many other areas of modern U.S. Catholic life. That is, in their goal of serving the church, young men find a lay vocation more attractive than a priestly one.
Furthermore, the laypeople who have doubts about the necessity of priestly vocations include married women as well as young men, and they, too, must be won over.
I grew up in what sociologists call a "diverse, ethnic, urban neighborhood" (I always thought we were just poor), and we had a local saying: The dream of every Jewish mother was "my son the doctor," and the dream of every Catholic mother was "my son the priest." I do not know what Jewish mothers are dreaming these days, but it is very clear what modern Catholic mothers are not.
Many important church figures have tried to figure out why the vocation decline persists. They have pointed to many causes, the Catholic right to the Second Vatican Council and the Catholic left to Humanae Vitae. There is the sexual abuse scandal, and, more recently, the large number of Catholics who think that opening up the priesthood to women and to married men would fill the seminaries and who thus blame celibacy and maleness for the priest shortage.
Some, possibly all, of these reasons may be correct, and I recognize that this problem should be left to experts. But all church historians, which is what I am, know that the clock is always ticking, and sooner or later a point of no return is reached. Young people are learning to live in a church without priests and may become indifferent to the priest shortage. My concern is that people working on vocations may be focusing on long-range plans for a time that may be too late.
But I do not wish to end on a negative note, so here is a suggestion to increase the number of priestly vocations. A sizable majority of Catholics believes that there is not a priestly vocation shortage but rather that the Vatican has manufactured the shortage by insisting priests be celibate men. These Catholics believe that there would be plenty of vocations if the Vatican would only accept them.
Some Catholics dismiss people with such views. I heard one TV pundit say, "Who cares what they think? They can't change anything." Wrong. They can and have changed things quite a bit by discouraging their sons to accept the priesthood as it is now, thus prolonging and even furthering the vocation shortage.
No one expects the current pope to change the requirements, nor is there any solid proof that abolishing the celibate male requirement would increase vocations. But many people think that it would, and a lot of these people have sons. It may help if the bishops would take these people's concerns seriously, recognize the impact their views have on vocations, and make a concerted effort to explain to them and others why the priesthood must remain open only to celibate men.
Such explanations must be clear and detailed and reasonable. Catholics know that women are already administering parishes and legitimately wonder why women cannot be ordained. Catholics know the priests, bishops, and popes of the early church were married, so naturally they wonder why married priests were good enough for centuries but not now. Increasingly educated laity will not be satisfied with an answer that says, "We've done it this way for a millennium and so we cannot change now."
Catholic tradition does not include the notion that bishops must justify church teaching to skeptical laypeople, but this may be the new reality. More and more Catholics question the need for the celibate male requirement, and fewer and fewer Catholics encourage their sons to think about vocations. If they could be won over, vocations would likely increase. Surely this is a case of the end justifying the means.
This article appeared in the May 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 5, pages 36-38).